Daily Current Affairs Quiz 25 September 2022

c) Reforms in School education

The M.A. Khader committee on school education was set up by the government against the backdrop of the Right to Education Act to study various aspects of school education from preschool to higher secondary.
· The first report of the Khader committee mostly pertained to structural changes in school education such as merger of the three directorates under the department. The second report focusses on academic matters.

d) Amazon

Amazon announced its first solar project in India with three new solar farms in Rajasthan, with a combined energy capacity of 420 megawatts (MW).
Amazon aims to use 100% renewable energy across its business by 2025. The Indian project includes a 210-MW project to be developed by ReNew Power, a 100-MW project to be developed by Amp Energy India, and a 110-MW project to be developed by Brookfield Renewable Partners.

a) Laxmi Cooperative Bank

The Reserve Bank of India has canceled the license of Maharashtra-based Laxmi Co-operative Bank. The reason is a lack of adequate capital. Upon the liquidation of the bank, every depositor will be entitled to receive a deposit insurance claim amounting up to Rs. 5 lakh.

b) UCO Bank

India’s Public sector lender UCO Bank is the first bank to receive the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) approval for rupee trade.
The Kolkata-based bank will open a special vostro account with Gazprombank of Russia for trade settlement in Indian rupees. In July, RBI announced its decision to allow Indian banks to settle trade in Indian currency in July. RBI also allowed trade settlements between India and other countries, including Sri Lanka and Russia.

a) 1 only

· It is a nationwide flagship campaign, initially for one month, to clean sea shores of plastic & other waste material, while raising awareness about the importance of cleanliness.
· It was subsequently extended as a Pan-India round-the-year campaign to cover rivers and other water bodies as well.

· Since the launch of ‘Puneet Sagar Abhiyan’, over 100 tons of plastic waste have been collected from nearly 1,900 locations by more than 12 lakh NCC cadets. Hence, statement 1 is correct.

· The National Cadet Corps (NCC) had in 2021, launched ‘Puneet Sagar Abhiyan’.
· Recently National Cadet Corps and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to tackle the issue of plastic pollution and achieve the universal goal of clean water bodies through ‘Puneet Sagar Abhiyan’. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.